11. It’s A Small World: Burn it down when it’s full of church youth groups.
by Jesse Singal
by Awl Sponsors
“Well-meaning white people who like violent rap music will argue against the notion that it inspires real-life violence among those who listen to it. I will argue this. But what are we to say when a black person says, ‘Someone sees Waka and then kills Treyvon.’ And we know that she sees…
“Nearly a fifth of Britons fail to change their sheets at least one a month, startling new figures suggest.” (This news is startling only if you don’t recall that a) this is an annual feature and b) it is a well-established fact that Britons are the most verminous, filth-encrusted hominids to…
★★★★ Now there was even a little light to spare. The image of the sun itself flashed orange-red off the…
Rabies authority Bill Wasik calls this a paragraph “where every phrase makes you want to punch something.” It says here that he is correct.
“Among the top ten safest songs to drive to are Come Away With Me by Norah Jones, I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith and Tiny Dancer by Elton John. Each of the songs have an optimum tempo of a song for safe driving, mimicing the human heartbeat at around 60…
“461 cities in 46 states had their hottest year on record in 2012.”
New York native Larry Storch — older readers will have vague memories of “F Troop,” and younger readers should probably just take a look at this article from last summer — turns 90 today. Happy birthday to him!
“Not all encounters with bears had a happy ending this year. Albert E. Smythe of Lanark Village was arrested by sheriff’s deputies on Oct. 3, for shooting a black bear and attempting to hide his actions after FWC officers investigated an incident that took place at Smythe’s home on April…
